>>720118868
>whatever x2
I knew that Piss5 owners don't understand jack shit about game development and design.

>belittling the damage casual, mobile and social media gaming did
Clearly you weren't even developed in your dad's nutsack back in 2008. The moment Angry Birds dropped, entire universities changed their curriculum to train cheap Java-code wage slavies. Any sort of attempt of acquiring funding for an "oldschool", hardcore game was suddenly futile. Ironic, since just last year in the NGC, the same experts pushing the mobile-shit down our throats reversed their words and instructed everybody to make PC games instead.

Also, "Casual gaming" is not an adjective, but a noun, stupid zoomie.
Nintendo LITERALLY coined the term and started appealing to NON-GAMERS with the Wii system, attracting the very mouth-breathing ADHD fags that then ruined the industry.

>top PS2 games sportsball and GTA
GTA has never been "casual". It's a textbook definition of hardcore action game, made for mature audiences.
Dudebros playing sports and racing shit were a whole breed of their own, but by no means "casual" Nintentoddlers.

>PS2 had online capabilities
But it did not require it at any point, nor did a huge majority of games ever make any use of it. And yes, Dreamcast and even N64 already had "online features", but you'd be hard pressed to compare those to the Xbox Live or PSN era online cancers.

>unironically praising and shilling TLOU style movie slop
Off yourself, 42%-er. That "slooow moving and chatting with NPCs" shit, followed by endless QTEs and all linear world design, is exactly the sort of "cinematic" trash that soured the entire term.

>>717938395
Similar situation here
>find mid/slop game that is a crappier version of an okay game from years ago
>download to see if I can at least get an hour of entertainment out of it or find a redeeming part
>backlog getting larger and larger
>by the time I think about playing I start to dread how shit it will be and desperately search for something less shit to download
Feels impossible to find anything that isn't shit and i'm domed to live in a world of shit.

>>717828768
>What happened during 7th gen that turned everyone into cynics?
Games got shit,
normies hijacked the internetnet and the hobby,
and virtue signaling became the favorite pass time of attention whores.

All this only sped up the deterioration of games, resulting the undeniable decline in quality, challenge, longevity, replay-value, and basic features such as private server hosting and modding.

>>716351916
I've been gaming for OVER 30 years now.
Awful vidya was a thing already day 1. That's what caused the big Video Games Crash of the 1980s.

After the "renaissance" Nintendo brought, and fast-forwarding to ~Y2K days, these shitty, random clusterfuck games were being made to some degree. Often by tiny literal-who studios / indie fags / Chinks. Lots of them remained as nothing but Flash games on the internet, for-the-lulz mods for other games, or pitiable tech demos of some lonely nerd in his basement.

They were lucky to even get media coverage at all, plus anyone with half a brain knew to ignore just about anything with below 6/10 scores on the big gaming mags and such.

Things changed circa 2008, when both the XBLA and mobile-shit indie scene blew up. Steam got its "Greenlight" system, that made it piss easy for even a random nobody on the street to release their crappy asset-flip Unity project or that MS Paint + GameMaker work of art they made when they were 11.

Soon after, the cancerous "Early Access" format arrived, fueled by the already rampart paid DLC plague. Suddenly, you didn't even need to FINISH and PLAY TEST your games before throwing it at the gullible masses, and you'd still make crazy amount of cash! Allowing consoles to be always online only made the laziness worse, thanks to the "lol we patch it later! :^)" mentality.

Fast forward to current year minus some, and now off-shelf game engines like Unreal 5 allow literal toddler Pajeets to cook up Roblox Studio- like trash with Tomb Raider -reboot tier graphics, but system requirements of four Crysis 3 games running in tandem on a single PC at Ultra High settings, without ever even opening a code editor.